Friday, August 19, 2016

We all got development server at our work. But we all like to have a dev server for our cool stuff we do at home. It may be freelance or pure technical interests.
We know we can set it up, but how and the associated complexities keep us form really setting up a dev server for home.

So let's see how we can do this on a Raspberry-pi. What you need

Raspberry-pi - that's the whole point, right :)

A Micro USB charger - for the PI

An Ethernet cable - for initial connectivity. Later with a wifi dongle you can set-up a wifi connection.

A microSD card (minimum 8GB, and cards up to 32GB seem to work fine)

These will also come in handy during the initial setup:

A USB keyboard

An HDMI cable and monitor

Install Raspbian on PI.

Install remote desktop software on PI (it's easy to connect to PI this way than using mouse/keyboard/monitor whole setup)

setup ssh on PI

Install a web server

Setup access to your local server through internet. You can user NgRok for that.